Store YouTube Videos to Your Drive

Capturing Online Videos is easy then you think. I posted a blog a couple days back about using KeepVid to capture online. Today I will be doing a post on using a piece of software called real media catcher to perform the same task. This two tools work in very different ways but both produce the same outcome.

Capture Video From Other Sites Part 1

In a previous post I show how to quickly edit and capture video from You Tube using a service called Keep Vid. For the most part Keep Vid will help you capture all flash type videos from any website but on occasion you'll find that keep vid can not determine how to capture the video you are streaming. This is no problem, read this next post to see how to capture from other sites.

This post discuss capturing video from sites using a downloaded tool.

What you should understand to use this tutorial? You should understand installing software on to your machine, and you should be able to view source on a web page and identify the video file name that you are downloading.

Capture YouTube Videos

I am going to talk about a simple service out there that lets you capture flash videos to your local computer. In this case I will discuss the ability to capture flash video from a service called KeepVid. 

I will do a quick walk through on how to capture a streaming video from the You Tube Website.

Step 1 . Go to You Tube and find the video you are interested in. Click the link to the video and start playing the video. Once you are on the page that plays the video you can continue to the next step.

Step 2. Copy the URL from the URL bar of the video that is playing. Highlight the URL and press "Ctrl+C".

Step 3. Navigate to the following "http://keepvid.com" web site or click here to go to the Keep Vid.

Step 4. Enter the You Tube URL into the URL bar on the KeepVid website, and click download. You can use "Ctrl+V" to automatically paste the url you previously captured in step 2.

Step 5.  Choose the download type. Choose either type to record, the second is usually better quality.

Step 6. Choose a location to save it on your local computer and the video should start downloading.

Saving flash videos to your computer

This is a training exercise on how to save flash video to your local computer. It's not about creating your own it is about the ability to save video that you have seen online. Lots of places have gone to displaying video through flash. The days of save video to local computer have changed drastically. This does not mean you can no longer save videos to your computer it just takes a few more steps.

On a side note check with the owner of the video to see if it is allowed to capture their video and save it to your computer. This is just a training guide, in some cases it may be copyrighted and not allowed. The fact that it is able to be captured may not make it legal.

The one thing to remember is any video that is downloaded to watch is on your computer . The video is being rendered from you computer which means the video is truly on your computer even if you physically can't see where its at, even when this video is streamed.

This post will discuss some common tools to help you download flash videos online.